 Oh, good morning, everyone. How are we? Good morning. Good morning. We have Vicky, we have a new host is joining us from Chile. But is it Chile down in Chile? Or is it nice and warm in Chile? Really hot. Really hot, yeah. Yes. Well, I'm feeling pretty chilly up here. But it's hot. It's hot where you are. Yeah, it's not Chile in Chile. It's hot, it's a hot Chile. That's great. How are you doing, Azure? Good, doing good. It's cold here, too. Are you still snowing in on your trek? Yeah, we're we're going to leave on Monday for Washington Monday morning. So I think we'll be able to make it through. Good. And we have a fourth host who's joining who's trying to join us. Steve Greenwood is trying his part. He was with us briefly, but there's issues with logging in and starting up your Windows machine and stuff. So hopefully he'll make it. Microphone issues. Yes. So let's see, should we let them put the banner across so they know what word to type in? Yeah. Yes, so the prize for this live cast is by typing in the secret word. Type that in to the chat, and you will be entered into the draw, which Azure will reveal the winner later on. Did I hear that? Is that Steve? Nope, still. He's still trying. Yeah, I think he's coming in, or I think he's trying. Yeah, so how are people doing this morning? We've got 40 already up in Adam Early from Sharon from Alabama, Christine, Latukla, Mark, Margaret Tull, APM 17 from Melbourne. That means you're up late. Susie Carter, Lisa Gervais. Hey there, Lisa, how are you doing? Melody Neighbors, Judy, Judith Victor. Lo and Doris from Indiana, nice. Julia from London, Bonnie Dragon Cat. Oh, I love that. Name Christopher Yolo. Good morning to you. Buongiorno, Caroline. Di Beata, Gail and Patty Mary from Oz. Nan, Sharon, Gail, Ruth, who else? Susan H. Eric, how are you doing? Eric and Kristen and Katie. Alesh, Alesh is typing in the source. There we go. David Weinberg, Shane, lots of people here. And more joining as we speak and people watching after the fact. So hello to all of you as well. So yes, type in the word sorcerer, not sorcerer, which I always used to say. Sorcerer. Sorcerer. The one who sources is a sorcerer. And it's a wonderful extension. So if you don't have the wiki tree sorcerer extension, I highly recommend it. Very useful, especially during connective fonts. The game changer, all right. Game changer, yes. And let's have a quick pop in. Check out our finny cam. There's finny cam. He's so sweet. He's a little, he's dejected and he's tired because before the show began, he really wanted attention. He wouldn't let me type because I'm typing like this and he'll not just hand up there and push my hand away so I can pet him and stuff. Anyways, but sorry. He got rejected. Yeah, that's right. I think it's time to go into some stats. Yay, numbers. We love numbers. Good, good. So what I'm going to do today for the stats this morning, and I was going to share this with Steve if Steve comes on, but if he doesn't make it, then we'll have to look through them myself. But so, let me just add that. There we go. So right before this, we went live, the total number was 64,997. We were just three short of 65,000. So I'm going to refresh my screen now and see if we've gone over the 65,000 mark. And we have, oh, by 77. We've got quite on. Oh, all of that, sorry. But anyways, that's very impressive. So I thought for the stats this morning, what I was going to take, I was trying to encourage per team or the middle person per team. Now, when there's only two, I'll just mention both. So starting, Smokin' Snakes have two people participating. Marsha Benjamin has 19, and Morgana has nine. Then the Musty Dusties have two people participating. Richard Devlin has 42, and Ron Lamarrow has one. The Banyan Tree has five people. So the middle person there is number three, which is Balne S. Young. And he has 11 profiles done so far. Team Massachusetts also has five, so the middle person there is Chip White, which also has 11. What are the chances there? Two teams with five people, and both of those middle people have 11. Interesting. Team Austria, Beata Hauer, who's in the chat with us right now, has an even 200, very impressive. And Alesh knows the secret to the universe, the life, and everything, because he's done exactly 42 profiles. The Southwest China says seven people, so the exact middle person is for Marcy D. Ruiz, who has 15 profiles to her name. Ruiz. Ruiz. Oh, sorry. Ruiz. Ruiz. Thank you for correcting me. The French Fries. The French Fries. Julien Crescent has 24 profiles. The middle person on Team L'Chime will say half of six is three, so we'll go with Elaine Martson with 55 profiles. Nice calendar on there, five times 11. Little team on the prairie, nine people, so the middle person is number five, and that position is Sean Boyle with 26 profiles, half of a deck of cards. Team Virginia has 16, so half of 16 is eight, so we'll go say Sherry Mitchell is in the middle of the pack there with 38 profiles. Twisted Thistles in the seventh position is Sarah Mason with 51 profiles to her name, one short of a deck of cards, maybe because she has an ace up her sleeve. Yes, she has. The middle person in a 23 team would be a number 13, you know? Number 12, yes, right? Number 12, which is Caroline Cross, ooh, just one under Chris Witton. Caroline Cross has 35 profiles, but look at the two above Chris Witton and Giselle Cormier, both 44, nice panel of drums there, multiple of 11. Iris Shonike has 15 people on their team, and so the eighth person is the middle of the pack, which is Charlie F. Pool, who has 51, again one short, one short of a deck. The Super Ozzy Genies. Oh, is Steve joined us? Yay Steve. Yeah, I'm here, I had to turn it off and turn it back on again. Oh, just like the IT crowd. I mean, I had to reset my internet browser, so yes, I'm here now, what did I miss? We're in the middle of the stats. Well, I'll let you continue the stats, obviously. That's okay, well, we're glad you're here. Yes. And your computer's cooperating in there. I'm not gonna touch anything else. Okay, where were we? Super Ozzy Genies, 15 people on the team, so the middle person is number eight, and that's Vicky L. Hales, and she has 43 profiles to her name. And then we have the Flying Dutchman, and Monique Dufres, Dufhouse, Dufhouse, probably, is 58 profiles. The Western Red Cedars, that's your team, isn't it, Azure? Woohoo, yeah, Azure. Almost Azure. Azure. And the middle of the pack there is Jenny L. Hainer, and she has five squared profiles, 25. Woohoo. African Springboss, as six people, so position number three belongs to Esme Van Der Westozen from the South African Springboss, 148. Nice, nice number there. We're tied with them. Nice score. What's that? Our team is tied with them. Oh, look at that, exactly 1,300 each. Wow. Wow, and one number. That's what the competition, wow. That's amazing, but look at these. I commented yesterday on these scores, like what a powerhouse they're on. Yeah. Yeah. Small but mighty. Small but mighty. But you are, you've got quite a few in there, so I don't know, it'll be interesting to see how this one turns out. Yeah. I mean, the Springboss are generally a pretty high normalized seam, like they can do a lot of a little. Yeah. So if any one person falls asleep or falls off the wagon, then it could be overtaken. That's right, yes. So send them sleepy time tea and stuff. This team at Mid-Atlantic US has 37 people all together on their team. So we have to, so that means we want to look at position 19. So if you wonder how you get the middle position that's an odd number, you have to take, you subtract one, so you got 36, and you know that there's 18 before and 18 after, so that means the 19th person is the exact middle, in this case, and which is A Murphy, and A Murphy has exactly 24 profiles. That's my number. That's great. And then we have 23 on Nordic Noir, so we're gonna be looking at person number 12, which is Angela Johnson, and has 40, exactly 40, nice round number there. 10, team Missouri, looking at the ninth player, and that's Todd A Murray, and Todd has 66, not a palindrome. So we're gonna be 11. Two Murray's in a row. What's that? Is that the second Murray in a row? Oh, wait a second. Todd Murray. The last person in the Nordic Noir. Oh, no, that was Johnson, wasn't it? Murphy was on the Mid-Atlantic. Oh, wait. A Murphy. Murphy and Murray, okay. Right, right, right. Still waking up. I need to get a wake up juice. On the Southern Cross Stars, the person in position eight is Kerry J. McCarron, and she has 62 profiles. The Globetrotters has nine people, so number five is the middle. That's my team. Is that yours? Yay! Go Vicki! I'm trying to air it. Lee Byrne, good job Vicki. Yeah, me. Has 95, very nice. David and Betsy and Eric, that's just a, that's all-star team right there. What a team. It is an all-star team, yeah. And David Randall, he's the captain. Yeah, yeah. Very good. So yeah, Lee has 95, just five short. 19 times five, or five short of 100. So there we go. Big team here. Toddlin, tortoises has 35 people all together. So that means I need to look at position 18 for the middle of the pack, which is Carol Lynn Hark. And Carolyn has 29 profiles so far. Good work there, Carolyn. And then team Italy, that's my team. And look at, I'm not at the bottom of the pack anymore. I'm even in double digits. Yay! I've moved on up. I've moved on up, moving on up. I'm not sure, we'll see. Church, I'm gonna be in the church all morning so I'm not gonna get very much further. But where was I? Okay, the seventh position belongs to Richard C. Heritage, or Heritage, who is exactly 50. Nice number there, at two times five squared. Excellent. Way to go, Richard. And then on the Southern Super Sweepers, we're looking at position number 16, which would be Jenny S. Sullivan, who has 39. She's taken 39 steps to get to this place. Very well, very well done. Is that a prime number? I like that number. Is 39 prime? It's not a prime number, no, it's three times 13. So it's not prime. Oh, right. But there was a famous mystery book called The 39 Steps that was written by John Buchan, who was a former governor general of Canada. And there's a song by Queen. Turned into a black and white movie, a little way back in the 30s or something like that. There's a song by Queen written by Brian Mayne. Oh, really? 39, yeah. Ah. I'm 39 years old, so it's kind of special right now. Oh. Oh, man, I turned a much larger round number just recently. But we won't talk about that. Let's move on to exchange of topics. Cornbread catchers, 21 on the team. So that means a person in number 11 is in the middle of a hack. Willardine L. Adams, who has 57. 57, which is not a prime number, multiple of three. And that very good Willardine there for the cornbread catchers. Then we're onto the Canadian connectors. My other team, 18th position is in the middle and that would be Michel G. Mathieu. And he has a trancet, 37. Profiles done so far. Now that one is a prime. That one is a prime, yes. Okay. Yeah, you got it. On the Wizards of Oz, they 21 people on the team. So a number 11 is the middle of the pack, which is Danny R. Stapleton. They've worked Danny with 50, another nice round, two times twice per year. Another round number. 50, yeah, love that. Team Roses has 27 people, so we're looking at number position 14. Miyako T. Jones. T. Jones though, switching languages here. Miyako T. Jones. Who has 27, three cubed. 27. That's Weird El's number actually. Weird El? Yeah, he uses the number 27 in lots of his content. Oh, interesting. There's like a whole page devoted to it on the Weird El. On the Tree Nuts, position number 13 belongs to Don B. Sage Jr. With 60, another round number. Excellent. That's a lovely number, as long as it's not your age. Yeah. Hey, 60 is the new 40, right? Oh, yeah, okay, I like that. Moving on to the Kiwi Crew, who has 20 people in a team. So person number 10 is Michelle Miller, with 50, another nice round number, two times. More round numbers. Five squared, lots of 50s. That's wild. Are people stopping just to get round numbers just so I can marvel at them? Maybe that was their goal. That's their goal, must be. 13 people on the Splendid's Bruces, so middle of the pack there is gonna be number seven, Lorely Hutton, with 59, which I believe is a prime number. Then we have the Northwest Terriers, and... Cheese curds. What's that? Cheese curds. Cheese curds. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And so position number 14 is the middle there. The average is the Catherine A. Chapman, who has 48. Nice number there, four times 12. Eight contributions, thank you for that. Germany Genies, position number 11 belongs to Sven Elbert, and he has 146. Do you know Sven? I mean, he's part of my team. Yeah, so this is your team. Ha ha ha ha. He's so productive. Look at my normalized score. Ha ha ha ha. Oh, that normalized score is a little demoralizing. I just gotta change it. I gotta work on it more today. I'm actually off today now, so I can do it. You can do it, excellent. 31 people for the Legacy Heirs, and so the middle person is gonna be number 16, which is Ray W. Sarlin, and Ray has 61 contributions. That's great. And then the Mighty Oaks, 42 people playing, and so number 21 will be Katie L. Barker, and Katie has 83 contributions, 83 profiles created. That's excellent. 46 people on the Appalachia Roots, Appalachia Roots, Appalachia. Lectricola. Yeah, someone say biscuits? Cynthia D. Grafton said biscuits, and she's done, she's created 167 biscuits on the wiki tree. Way to go, Cynthia. And that's our top team, yeah. Look at that, so their team score, okay, so they're the first team to make it into five digits for the team score, 11,094, just like that. Wow, great job, everybody. This is our new team. That's crazy, and look at the Mighty Oaks, like that's, yeah, that's twice as much as the Mighty Oaks there. I'll use no one to catch them. They're powered by biscuits. Well, that's why they put them in divisions, right? So that the smaller teams have a chance of being something reasonable. Anyways, there we go. Now, so just before, like seconds before we started the livecast, the number was 64,997. We were three shy of 65,000. Then once we said hello and welcomed, I refreshed, we were now 77 over the 65,000. In the time it took me to do the stats, let's see how many more have been added. Woo, wow. Five, 295. Yeah, so 218 more in just that time it took to read those stats. So you can use that little bit of math to figure out how much to add to your guests or to make for your guests because Azure wins the deadline for the guests. Is it noon? Noon, noon today. Yeah, I already posted my bit. You have it, good. I haven't posted mine. I always forget. I remember after I finished the mass, but by then it's afternoon. It's like 12, oh five, and it's too late. Okay, so I am going to bid you adieu because I have to whip off to church and play the pipe organ. But I will leave you in very capable hands as you will pick a winner and lots of other fun ones too. But you guys have a great day. There will be another live cast here at noon and then again at four when I will join. I'll be available for the rest and hopefully it should work. Bye, great. Have a good day, great. Have a good day, great. Take care. Bye, bye. All right, well we can go ahead and do the winner here. Let me go ahead and share on screen the drawing. So if everybody can, if you haven't already, type in the word sorcerer and I'll share the drawing here. Let me see. Okay, is everybody ready? Do a little drum roll. Yay. Here we go. Oh, am I sharing? No. No. We're not seeing. Okay, it's slowing down now. All right, Patty. Patty LePans. It's already winning everything. Congratulations. Yay. Congrats, Patty. So you don't have to do anything, Ayo and I'll get in touch with you about your prize and how that all, what to do for that. So I'll go ahead and stop sharing. Does anybody in the chat have any questions or want us to share something or show something? We have the post that is linked down in the video description about asking if you have any questions about the marathon and I'll add that to the chat here. So you guys can ask questions there if you'd like. And we have the post for sharing your selfies. I shared mine with one of my three cats. I saw that I was so cute all around me. I gotta get myself into it, get on there and get it added. Yeah, she's Greta. Who is your cat, Vicky? It is Greta. Greta. I like that name from there. Hi Greta. Hi Greta, let's look at the camera. Other shoulder. Yeah. And then on the wiki tree store, Aoun has the connect-a-thon. I'll go ahead and share my screen for that here. Aoun has the logo up for the connect-a-thon but there's also all different kinds of merchandise on there. If you wanna get like an American mud or I think the Appalachian mud or Scottish muds or all the different, I think she's got a lot of different countries up there for that. And there's stickers and bags, all kinds of stuff. For you guys to check out, there's a coupon code and it's, let me type that in for you. It's connect24 and it's for 12% off your order. 12% off your order. All right. So did you, Vicky or Steve wanna share anything about what you're working on? Yeah. No, I was thinking we should remind everyone that there is in the 16, for 16 missions, there is a total about having 160 profiles created during a connect-a-thon. So remember that and keep it in mind so you reach that goal. Let me go ahead and get that link for everybody. Just take a second and find out where that's at here. Do you happen to have that link, Vicky? Oh, no, it might be 16 for 16. Sure. Oh, here we go. You get it? Yeah. I think, or is this the, yeah, here we go. You want to get this on stage? Oh, okay. Here we go. I found it. There's the link. Pop that into the chat and then I'm gonna go ahead and bring it up on the screen for y'all. So it did really good last year, the 15 for 15 last year. So they just re-upped for this year. So definitely go out there and find out for that. It's fun. Every time we add a year, we add a number. I didn't even get one done last year. It's a nice way to kind of explore different parts of Vicky Tree that are listed out there. So it's a great thing to use. All right. Anything else you guys want to share or talk about? I don't really have anything to share. I just have a whole bunch of German profiles that really need to start digging in. I mean, a lot of it's based off on personal categories. So I always recommend that if anybody's working on their own projects, use personal categories to help gather all those things together because you won't have to look for them as hard. It'll all be in one space. And then you can move around. Maintenance categories is needed to keep track of what you're working on because it's easy to get lost really quick. Yeah. Just write everybody's name down on a piece of paper or in this case, might jump in. Be like, OK, well, which one should I get through today? I'll drop the link for that in the chat here too. There's a help page on personal categories you guys can check out. Yeah. Or you can also link to personal categories as the actual category itself. I mean, yeah, that's going to link to it so people can see examples of other people's personal categories. So yeah, I definitely use them a lot. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I like people a little bit. Did anybody see any questions in the chat? Is there a way to see? What's the URL for guessing? Susie is asking that one. OK, let me go over and grab that real quick. And then Cappy's question, I'm sure that that can be found within a search of the G2G. How many profiles? I think Alash is in the chat, actually. Is there a way to see how many profiles were added during the last Connect Thumb? Yeah, he's speaking to him. I think, oh, you mean the total for the last Connect? Do you want to know what the total was in like the fall Connectathon? The July Connectathon was $95,000. Alash? $95,000. Alash shared a tip yesterday morning, I guess, about how you can see the results from past years. And I used that to create a mathematical projection for the G2G. So you can check that. You just have to edit the URL for the tracking page. Yeah, the number changes slightly. Yeah, you just have to take out the number. Yeah, he says remove the ending in the URL. Yeah, that's true. But the total last year popping that into the chat was $95,575. That's what we have for what that was. And the one before that was in the 96s. So they're pretty consistent. Are we going to break 100 this time? I know. I hope we do. I'm betting you. Yeah. Yeah, but that's what most people looks like most people are guessing is that it'll be over $100,000. So that would be awesome. My guess was $105,000 and something. Yeah, great. We'll see. I noticed it was slowing down a little bit. So we should get on it and bump those numbers up. Yeah. That's your show for Sunday, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right, well, I guess we'll go ahead and let everybody get back to connecting. Get back to work. Come back here in three and a half hours for the next live cast. We'll see you all later. See you guys soon. Bye. Bye. See you here.